Nostr was designed primarily to be censorship resistant but that's a poor sales pitch apparently.

Permissionlessness is the stronger concept. It isn't just a niche feature—it's the foundation of digital sovereignty that benefits everyone. Instead of leading with "censorship resistance," we should emphasize that Nostr gives you true ownership of your online presence.

Your keypair is your permanent identity that no one can take away. No more starting over when platforms change policies, no more losing your entire network when servers go down, no more invisible throttling of your content.

What we're building isn't just another social network—it's the first system where your connections and reputation truly belong to you, regardless of which relays you use. That's not a feature for the 1% of the 1%—it's the fundamental upgrade to social media that all users deserve, whether they realize it yet or not.

@npub1ye5...knpr I just zapped nostrudel - the nsite version - but it doesn't show.

Guess I shouldn't have bought an Alexa for my mother in law.

Alexa! No le hagas caso a mi papá! - Alexa, don't listen to my dad.

@npub1ye5...knpr I'm working on a pull request and it starts making sense ...

Sort Following and Followers by popularity among my follows.

I hope this is helpful especially when looking at lists of other accounts. Who is @npub18am...p424 following?

As my follows come first, this is not a particularly interesting part of the list and I think it should by default hide my own follows here. Some "Click to show 120 of your own follows". The interesting part is further down, where I'm not following the accounts yet:

Off the bat I see 5 accounts I thought I was following - after carefully checking they are not fake accounts but if 80 of my follows follow them ...

When will lonely, elderly people start to talk to LLMs on a massive scale? Is this already happening?

It can be extremely tiring to listen to stories of mildly demented people who struggle to string thoughts together and they don't want to be a burden neither but they want to talk more than others around might have time to listen.

I'm reluctant to put these thoughts out as I might come across as being cruel but I think, some would flourish with such an AI companion that never gets tired listening to their stories, especially if it was tasked to do something with the information collected. Not "Grandma, talk to the bot, please. I have to work" but "Grandma, I'd love to have a book written about your exciting life!"

way to go, Recraft V3 ...

I have been to many protests and I hear a lot about protesters being paid but how are street protests effective if they are not actually organic? An ad like this inevitably leaks and hurts the cause more than 40 protesters can help it, so why bother? Is it actually only to discredit the protest? Or how do people recruit real fake grassroot protesters?

Fat zap for anyone who can find me details on this transaction.

I need to know if this transaction might have looked benign at some point when it was sent. blockcypher kind of knows it but doesn't tell me much. What is "from Empty Script Type (output)" The output (input) is unknown ...

Like what the f***? Canada? How did that happen?

Who is tracking double-spends aka unconfirmed transactions that turned invalid?

I have the binary of an old transaction and its input references a transaction ID that I cannot find on the blockchain. I want to understand on which day the transaction turned invalid.

#askNostr

So this strategic reserve executive order clearly moved markets today and people are debating if it's good or bad for Bitcoin. Clearly Bitcoiners, Shitcoiners with seats at Trump's table and Shitcoiners without the latter sold the news.

In summary, over 24h, BTC is down 4.1%, ETH 4.8%, XRP 1.9%, SOL 4.7%, ADA 11.3% and Doge 4.0%.

The charts look all the same. Some "he signed" up-tick, some "sell the news" down swing, followed by some recovery. But why is Doge following this trend? Even the Monero chart appears to be affected by the EO in a similar pattern?

Tucker Carlson interviewed SBF.

Maybe imperfection isn’t a bug—it’s the point. We’re built to wander, second-guess, and course-correct. Perhaps boredom is just a reminder: Answers are useful, but questions keep us alive.

So @npub1xts...kk5s came up with a podcast generator that turns a headline into a conversation and then a podcast with two voices talking about the topic. That sounds great and like it could actually generate a lot of money. Next he'll probably have the LLM pick the headlines, too based on how much past episodes generated, to churn out an episode every hour. And listeners will give their ⚡to surface what has actual value to them. The podcast generator would again feed to the biggest audience possible.

But what if there was a way to make money going for the smallest niche possible?

I'm starting to believe that LLMs have great potential to keep us dumb and unproductive. It's great fun to throw Sonnet at some big code base and get the resemblance of new features in seconds but the more involved it gets the more it tends to introduce errors and then you are just debugging which is a great opportunity to add more errors and then the task can only be abandoned after spending time and money on it.

So if you have no idea about coding, it gives you a magic wand that can summon stuff you couldn't imagine before but for somebody who has summoned stuff for many years this magic wand is kind of under-powered still.

OpenRouter appears to be the main player in the field of providing access to multiple LLMs and while it appears to have some features I'm missing at @npub16g4...kv4h, its payment process is the best advertisement to not using them.

First of all, I have to create an account and agree to the privacy policy and TOS. Ok, nobody reads those, right?

Then my first query fails due to lack of funds. Sure, same with @npub16g4...kv4h.

Let's add some funds, shall we? I heard they also accept "crypto".

I have to opt in to use crypto and it defaults to $10 but the due amount is $10.53? A 5.3% fee for using the hardest money possible? That's quite a surprise, given @npub16g4...kv4h has a 5% discount instead.

So, whatever. I'm not going to stay long. I just want to try this out to know what I'm missing out on. After all, @npub16g4...kv4h costs a ton when using in the Cline plugin and while some claim it's just how Cline works, I wanted to see for myself if changing between the providers mid session would change the fees. But not with $10. How about $5? Well, no surprise, the fee just went up a bit but not much. 5.4% it is, so I'm getting my wallet ready ... but what is this???

I want to make a payment, not connect a wallet. Apparently Bitcoin is not supported at least by this merchant.

Clicking on "Open Billing Portal" on the other hand opens stripe and pre-fills my full name and email address. I can't edit neither. Guess I have to trust stripe to not have harvested my email before hitting that submit button. We will see in my spam folder.

Well, ... guess I'll leave it to the PPQ team to monitor their competition and trust them after having seen enough red flags elsewhere.

Firefox is more dead every other week.

What's your opinion on the Oval Office press conference with #Zelenskyy today?

What a bloodbath! Did they set him up to get into that kind of a brawl? Zelenskyy looked like an actor playing a role poorly in which he had to keep provoking a reaction by Trump/Vance. And what was that intermezzo regarding his lack of a suite? That's where he really lost track, realizing he was picking a fight with a reporter over cheap or expensive suits 😂 It felt like a show to explain to the world why the US is pulling out of Ukraine now.

How are nostr based encyclopedias coming along? #askNostr @npub180c...h6w6 @npub1l2v...ajft